Iraqi Sniper[Sensitive Pictures]

Nobody in this thread yet has refuted by Israeli made gun mount camera accusation and I await somebody to do this.

What's to refute? Any ape can mount a camcorder on an L bracket and bolt said L bracket to the stock of a rifle. I think any terrorist group with
sufficient resources to build explosive devices has got the necessary technology to attach a handheld video recorder to a rifle.

I don't understand what makes you think that it's so hard to attach a camera to a gun?

Can you expand on that point a little, and help us to understand?

Why don't you do it and see for yourself how it works? It is a lot more complicated than you think.

There is a lot of considerations that you haven't even begun to consider in making a device like this work.

The problem here is that on the takedown picture Mosin 5-round stripper clips are clearly seen with brass X54R ammo, and unless a Mosin rifle was used
to snipe, that ammo does not belong in the same picture.

Not to mention that the .308 M40A1 was not in the same picture with the ammo and other contents.

Great links to the 7.62 x 54 rounds, love the zoom in and zoom out options.

Also, yes the ammo in video of this Juba dude also shows those same type of rounds starting at 1:10 time meant for the Dragunov SVD.

But lets go back to the rifle that you supposedly mentioned about Vietnam age rifle.

The camo looks lightly different, but you can tell by the color that its still the forest camo applied to the current m40a1 used by the USMC.

This is the one with that same camo with the Unertl 10X scope.

Now the first pic shows some gray color of the fiberglass where some of the paint had came off, for what reason I don't know. But you can see that
the bottom pic it seems to be cleaned and apply with a different camo on the gray areas (possibly mossey oak forest color or something) that is
different from the original. But as you can see some remains of the original paint showing dark green, light green and dark red, 3 different
colors.

Heres another...

This pic was taken back in 2000 same camo. Does it mean anything? Don't know.

Why was the rifle not included in the pic, I do not know, maybe the Marines didn't feel like adding their baby as part of the evidence along with the
insurgents' items.

As for the M-14s, there are ones that are used by the U.S. Army with many upgrades instead of the original M-14 and M-21. Before then, they had to
deal with the old weapons they kept in storage using them in 2003, 2004, 2005 in Iraq, but now as of this year they have much improved rifles based on
those old ones.

As for the Mosin stripper clips, I would like to know why its there. But then why was the M16 mag there as well, I see no M4 or M-16 weapon either
with it, besides the M40a1 rifle. They seem to be keeping many things there. Iraq is being washed with weapons, even old ones like Sturmgewehr 44.
Maybe the enemy sniper had the Mosin Nagant before getting his hands on the M40a1 and decided to use that weapon, while still leaving all those ammo
hidden in those compartments that he may not need anymore.

Why M14 on CP? Because M16s never did their job to begin with. A good M14 burst will go right through an engine block and taking it out.

M16A2 will just keep burping 3 bursts until empty while the car will keep rolling right on you.

Maybe the enemy sniper had the Mosin Nagant before getting his hands on the M40a1 and decided to use that weapon, while still leaving all those
ammo hidden in those compartments that he may not need anymore.

Maybe a sniper feels sentimentally attached to his pet iguana and decides to bring it along.

Sorry for the sarcasm, but sniper hauls only what he needs, period. Everything else is a liability.

Here's an example.

Urban sniper in a shelled out building. Broken walls and concrete dust everywhere. Other then his load he got a sheet of folded gauze.

Why? Simple. When shooting from prone all that dust is kicked up by the muzzle blast, which immediately gives up the position.

Wet down the gauze, line the muzzle blast area, and your good.

For a sniper to bring over 70 rounds of crap ammo for the rifle he doesn't have, knowing that it's of the wrong caliber for the rifle he does have,
and instead bringing only one round for it, is simply ridiculous.

I just picked up a K for some weekend practice, and I'm sure as heck not going to bring a slingshot to shoot it with.

Well Ramadi, where the Marines who were killed and their weapons and equipment were taken, is next to a river, actually on a river, the Euphrates
River which there is abundant green there. Which would make sense to have the rifle colored as it is.

Its true that snipers tend to camouflage their rifle to blend with the environment.

There are pics of snipers with their rifles not painted that does not match with the environment. I even used one of the links you posted that shows
an M-14 that is not painted.

Of course we can get other images of other enemy snipers that would show its really the enemy we captured or killed. Any discrepancies on these
images?

Even if its not the M40a1 that this sniper used, I would still say that those two men killed were in fact insurgents, no matter the case about the
rifle. If indeed it was planted the rifle would have been camouflage in desert would it not? Since its supposedly taken from the dead Marines?

I also like to add, about having other items as a liability, when you shoot from a car, you are not carrying around these bullets that does not fit
your rifle, in fact you just leave it there, just like if you leave your stuff in your bedroom because you feel like you don't want to carry them
around. Maybe this insurgent sniper was lazy to clean it out.

I even used one of the links you posted that shows an M-14 that is not painted.

I marked those as "Old stock".

Any discrepancies on these images?

Nope. That mini-van looks like a real time hide, and contents match.

Even if its not the M40a1 that this sniper used, I would still say that those two men killed were in fact insurgents, no matter the case about
the rifle.

I wouldn't because I just don't know for sure. They could have been scouts, or they could have been making a buck on the side by taping what they
were told to. The article said that tapes showed video of UAVs, so who knows.

If indeed it was planted the rifle would have been camouflage in desert would it not? Since its supposedly taken from the dead
Marines?

That's easy. The serial number was provided, and if it belongs to the rifle in question, all that can be traced. With out that info I won't be
making any guesses about the rifles origin.

I also like to add, about having other items as a liability, when you shoot from a car, you are not carrying around these bullets that does not
fit your rifle, in fact you just leave it there, just like if you leave your stuff in your bedroom because you feel like you don't want to carry them
around.

No, a sniper hide is not like a bedroom, be it a car, roof top, or whatever else, and it's a bit hard for me to imagine somebody keeping a hand
grenade in their car because they don't feel like taking it out.

Maybe this insurgent sniper was lazy to clean it out.

Well, whoever that guys was, if he couldn't figure out that he brought the wrong ammo, he sure was not a sniper, lazy or not.

I wouldn't because I just don't know for sure. They could have been scouts, or they could have been making a buck on the side by taping what they
were told to. The article said that tapes showed video of UAVs, so who knows.

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